And the man-rending monster on a stone
Despairful dashed her head;
What mortal man by herd-possessing men,
What god by gods above was honoured then,
Like Oedipus below!
STROPHE V.
But when his soul was conscious, and he saw
The monstrous wedlock made ’gainst Nature’s law,
Him struck dismay,
In wild deray,